The Planters of Colonial VirginiaWertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
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The Planters of Colonial Virginia
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
Slavery -- Virginia; Virginia -- Economic conditions; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Cromwell, Oliver,
sends Irish servants to Virginia, 33.
Crump, Thomas,
servant, _Burgess_ in 1632, 74;
landowner, 75.
Culpeper, Lord,
fears ruin of Virginia, 91, 114.
Custis, John, 109.
Daingerfield, William,
has 61 slaves, 157.
Dawson, William,
landowning freedman, 74.
Day, John, 80.
Delaware,
manufactures of lure poor Virginia whites, 141;
migration to, 139-146.
Delk, Roger,
landowning freedman, 74.
Dicks, John,
purchases land, 49.
Digges, Dudley, 109.
Diggs, William,
has 72 slaves, 158.
Dinwiddie county,
poor whites in, 151;
small slave holders of, 153;
large slave holders of, 158.
Dodman, John,
landowner, 79.
Dorch, Walter,
inventory of, 106.
Duties,
French put on English woolens, 13;
on reëxported tobacco partly refunded, 70;
on reëxported tobacco, 117;
on tobacco yield grown large revenue, 120.
Edwards, John,
slaves of in plot, 128.
Edwards, William,
has six tithables, 57;
slaves of in plot, 128.
Effingham, Lord,
tyranny of in Virginia, 114.
Elizabeth City,
plantations of small, 53;
farms and tithables of, 58;
servants and slaves in, 59.
Emigration,
from Virginia in years from 1660 to 1725, 40, 62, 139-146;
not caused by large land grants, 144-145;
extent of, 146.
England,
colonial expansion necessary for, 7;
forests depleted, 7;
industry declining, 8;
Baltic trade of, 8;
future depends on colonies, 13; 14;
joy of at founding of Virginia, 15;
disappointed in Virginia, 19;
tobacco bill of, 26;
supplies Virginia with labor, 31;
poverty in, 31;
cannot consume entire colonial tobacco crop, 86;
tobacco planting in prohibited, 87;
glut of tobacco in, 68-89;
adheres to colonial policy, 95.
Epes, Francis, 79, 127.
Essex,
land transfers in, 46;
plantations of small, 53;
farms and tithables of, 58.
Falling Creek,
iron works at, 17;
destroyed in 1622, 18.
Fane, Francis,
says slave labor cheapens tobacco, 132.
Fish,
plentiful in Virginia, 15.
Fithian, Philip,
describes poor whites of Virginia, 152, 155.
Fitzhugh, William, 109;
refers to slave imports, 130.
Flax,
in Virginia, 15.
Fleet, tobacco,
brings servants, 35;
size of in 1690 and 1706, 122.
Foster, Armstrong, 79, 80.
Foster, Robert,
buys 200 acres, 50.
Fowl, wild,
abundant in colonial Virginia, 102.
Fox, William,
has 25 slaves, 153.
France,
exports wine and silk, 12;
British trade with declines, 13;
tobacco trade to, 119;
trade to injured by war, 131.
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